| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to Enviromental History online. About 148 words from this article are provided below; about 469 words remain.

If you are a individual subscriber to Environmental History, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Environmental History, you can:: • get subscription information here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of Environmental History (8.1-present).
Instititutions can:: • get subscription information here to receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. By Sylvia Lorraine Bowerbank. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii+287 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $49.95.

Speaking for Nature began as a meditation on Jane Jacobs' observation that, in Sylvia Bowerbank's words, "the sentimentalization of nature is part and parcel of [our] ecological crisis" because it allows us to be "at once the greatest destroyers and lovers of wild nature" (pp. 135, 220). Speaking for Nature historicizes that sentimentalization, what Bowerbank calls at one point "the romancing imagination" (p. 54), by tracing its emergence in chapters addressing the writings of a number of early modern Englishwomen, including the well known, such as Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Mary Wollstonecraft; the obscure, such as Catherine Talbot, Jane Lead, and Anna Seward; and even the nearly anonymous, such as eighteenth-century writers of educational texts for children.

. . .

There are about 469 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.